(9937) Triceratops
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Asteroid (9937) Triceratops |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3653 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2325 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8155 AU - 2.9152 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.2653 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 327.4889 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 46.7413 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.64 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | 17th February 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 DJ 2 , 1983 VY 2 , 1990 QZ 7 , 1990 RH 6 |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
(9937) Triceratops is an asteroid of the main inner belt . He was on 17 February 1988 by Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code discovered 809) and is one of the Hertha - family at.
The asteroid was named after the extinct genus Triceratops , a pelvic dinosaur with two horns above the eyes and a nasal horn.
See also
Web links
- (9937) Triceratops in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (9937) Triceratops in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (9937) Triceratops according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)